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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Well, THIS isn't ominous or anything:

"Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crisis"

"Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms"

(The BoE is about as staid and dull as they can possibly be: this is the equivalent of them setting their beard on fire and running screaming through the marketplace.)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/21/bank-of-england-chief-warns-worrying-echoes-2008-financial-crisis-tricolor-first-brands

the Guardian

Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crisis

Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms
Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’
@grammasaurus@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@cstross Excuse me, maybe I’m outta line, but isn’t it one of tHe rUleZ that you can’t post ominous stuff on the interwebs until late-in-the-day-on- Friday? Or is my calendar wrong? (again….)

#sarcasm

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wakest ⁂
@liaizon@social.wake.st  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Was reading about the Trump administration revoking the US visas of 6 people who posted online about the Charlie Kirk incident and noticed that one of them looks to be a fediverse user: @sixtus

Kevin Karhan :verified:
@kkarhan@infosec.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@liaizon Not shure if @sixtus ever went to the #USA, tho I'm convinced he hasn't had the desire since the #Trump regime is in power.

  • Tho I remember his legendary #HotTake for the 1st Trump term.

#USpol #sarcasm

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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
@publicvoit@graz.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#Trump is absolutely right! Those stupid motherf.... #WW2 #war #veterans thought they needed to "liberate" #Europe from the absolutely fine #Nazi people a few decades ago.

They even joined the #Antifa #terror organization named allied forces. 🤯

Total failure.

So sad.

Trump would have loved to make the bestest deals with #Hitler just as he loves to deal with #Putin and other great leaders who really love their people.

Why are those last remaining WW2 veterans still running freely and not living in those shiny new concentration camps built recently where they can't do any further damage to the free people of #USA?

Lock! Them! Up!

#sarcasm 🤮

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Sam Easterby-Smith
@samsterby@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

At the Green Party conference in Bournemouth we agreed to:

🏚️ Abolish landlords (the daily Mail are loving that one)
💻 Repeal the online safety act
🚂 Electrify the new varsity line
🇵🇸 further toughness re the Palestine war - against the Blair/Trump plan
🦡 end badger culling
🏳️‍⚧️ reform trans healthcare
🌍 climate strategy, natural habitat network
🌳 global biodiversity framework targets
🎈 stop all outdoor balloon releases

Plus a big bunch of internal organisational stuff. Absolutely delighted! 💚

Screenshot of the Daily Mail. Headline: “Greens vote to ABOLISH landlords in bizarre assault on millions of Brits at party's conference... even though one of their own MPs rents out a home”

With a photo of the conference hall: people sitting on chairs, a stage and podium all lit up green. Zack Polanski’s face in an inset rectangle.
Screenshot of the Daily Mail. Headline: “Greens vote to ABOLISH landlords in bizarre assault on millions of Brits at party's conference... even though one of their own MPs rents out a home” With a photo of the conference hall: people sitting on chairs, a stage and podium all lit up green. Zack Polanski’s face in an inset rectangle.
Screenshot of the Daily Mail. Headline: “Greens vote to ABOLISH landlords in bizarre assault on millions of Brits at party's conference... even though one of their own MPs rents out a home” With a photo of the conference hall: people sitting on chairs, a stage and podium all lit up green. Zack Polanski’s face in an inset rectangle.
Rev Nathan Ⓥ↔️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱
@revndm@queer.cool replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@samsterby @pluralistic you monsters! #sarcasm

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ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
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ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Data#Privacy#ICE#Deportation#Immigration#IRS#Tax#Trump

Hans Cummings (he/him)
@JediSoth@chirp.enworld.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica Gee, I thought part of the problem was that "illegals" don't pay taxes. WTF would the IRS have any information on them? #sarcasm
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Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action

Sandor Spruit 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦
@sandorspruit@mastodon.nl replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@neil @thomasfuchs I read today that a new Facebook data center will require 5GW of power, but I am sure every email deleted will help a lot #sarcasm 💪🏻
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